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Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation at a glance

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Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$9.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$3.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$35MEducation$23MPublic Safety & Disaster$3.2MRecreation & Sports$2.7MHealth$2.4MYouth Development$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $462k
  • $250k+6 grants · $9.1M
$200,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$887M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION$3,675,557
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$2,830,000
WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,000,000
MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY$604,074
K9'S FOR WARRIORS$600,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE$387,500
NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE$200,000
INCLINE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS$147,325
PET NETWORK HUMANE SOCIETY$115,000
CANINES WITH A CAUSE$34,800
DOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY$25,000
INCLINE EDUCATION FUND$25,000
ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL (ADI)$10,000
NORTHERN NEVADA CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS: $5k → 9%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $5k → 8%VICTORY SERVICE DOGS INC: $5k → 9%ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL (ADI): $10k → 18%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $5k → 8%TAHOE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
HI
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 59%.

Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 82 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
115

Total granted

$58M
$9.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+14%

Still filing today

56%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PN
    Pet Network Humane Society
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +69% · 73% of their budget
  • Cornell University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +15%
  • HN
    Humane Network
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7.0M · revenue +19% · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • CU
    CORNELL UNIVERSITY IMAGING LOCKBOX
    one grant, 2021 · $2.6M
  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • IV
    INCLINE VILLAGE GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Desert Dog Rescue Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
2
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
3
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
4
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
5
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
6
Idaho Animal Rescue Network

Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…

Animals
7
Raskels Rescue
Animals
8
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
9
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
10
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
11
Anas Safe Haven Rescue Inc

Animal Welfare

Animals
12
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Kiss for Homeless Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 123 of the 204 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/123
Grantees still filing
80/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pet Network Humane Society: $7,608,175 · AnimalsPet Network Humane SocietyHumane Network: $6,997,029 · AnimalsHumane NetworkMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,908,375 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETYTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $2,566,700 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATIONK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,510,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INCHEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,093,750 · Animals+71 more: $3,177,206 · Animals+71 moreWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,323,889 · OtherWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTCORNELL UNIVERSITY IMAGING LOCKBOX: $2,580,000 · OtherCORNELL UNIVERSITY IMAGING LOCKBOXAMERICAN RED CROSS: $2,000,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSPETOPIA INC: $1,812,500 · OtherPETOPIA INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $1,623,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TA…Incline-Tahoe Parks and Rec Vision Foundation: $1,318,000 · OtherIncline-Tahoe Parks and Rec Vision F…INCLINE VILLAGE GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (IVGID): $1,139,421 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $830,000 · Other+96 more: $4,542,520 · Other+96 moreCornell University: $7,590,000 · EducationCornell UniversityLake Tahoe School: $6,000,000 · EducationLake Tahoe SchoolINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB: $837,940 · EducationINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUBRIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $635,000 · Education+4 more: $62,000 · EducationLIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION: $3,675,557 · HealthINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $414,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,500,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $60,610 · PhilanthropyNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $390,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitROTARY FOUNDATION OF INCLINE VILLAGE: $200,950 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Animals$27,861,235Other$23,169,830Education$15,124,940Health$4,094,557Philanthropy$1,560,610Public Benefit$395,000Community Improvement$205,950

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPet Network Humane Society: $7,608,175 over 7y, 73% of budgetCornell University: $7,590,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Network: $6,997,029 over 4y, 94% of budgetLake Tahoe School: $6,000,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,908,375 over 7y, 39% of budgetLIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION: $3,675,557 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $2,566,700 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE: $1,623,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $1,510,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,093,750 over 5y, 24% of budgetINCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB: $837,940 over 4y, 70% of budgetRIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $635,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $451,794 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $414,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetNEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE: $390,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $270,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRenown Health Foundation: $260,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC: $245,200 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV: $229,416 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetROTARY FOUNDATION OF INCLINE VILLAGE: $200,950 over 1y, 51% of budgetCanines With a Cause: $180,062 over 3y, 46% of budgetNEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $159,870 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetSonoma Community Animal Response Team: $150,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND CAT ADOPTIONS: $124,800 over 4y, 28% of budgetSAMMIES FRIENDS: $112,500 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetEl Dorado County Humane Society: $110,000 over 1y, 75% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE: $107,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNAPA COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHAWAII ISLAND HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSOUTHERN NEVADA ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE: $93,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetPAWSITIVE DIFFERENCE: $86,600 over 3y, 31% of budgetFEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS: $78,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetNORTH BAY ANIMAL SERVICES: $75,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCODE 3 ASSOCIATES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAll About Equine Animal Rescue Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY LARGE ANIMAL EVACUATION GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetTAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetDouglas Animal Welfare Group: $33,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetA PATH 4 PAWS DOG RESCUE: $32,600 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetPets Are Worth Saving Inc: $25,112 over 3y, 17% of budgetDOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCowboy 911: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetINCLINE EDUCATION FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetAMOR PELUDO: $24,500 over 4y, 63% of budgetVEGAS ROOTS RESCUE: $22,300 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetFORGOTTEN DOGS ANIMAL RESCUE: $22,200 over 2y, 17% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Pet Network Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Humane Network ↗
  • Who funds Lake Tahoe School ↗
  • Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds HEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF INCLINE VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds Canines With a Cause ↗
  • Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Sonoma Community Animal Response Team ↗
  • Who funds INCLINE TAHOE PARKS & RECREATION VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND CAT ADOPTIONS ↗
  • Who funds SAMMIES FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds El Dorado County Humane Society ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Humane NetworkTahoe Community Found…The Duffield Family F…Humane World for Anim…Vincent C and Pamela …Petsmart Charities IncPetco LoveOfferdahl Family Foun…Community Foundation …Greater Good CharitiesThe American Society …Thelma B & Thomas P H…
Humane NetworkNV59.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Humane Network · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Humane World for Animals Inc · Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · Offerdahl Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 204 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home